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Inscribed Base? Fragments (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Base? Fragments (reused in cover of drain in Field 55): Honorific Inscription for Staue of Titus Flavius Damianus
- Date
- 2nd century AD., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S15.017
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Statue Base, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
- - - - - - - [Τ.] Φλ. Δαμια[νόν, τὸν] κράτιστον λο[γιστήν], πατέρα συνκλη̣[τικῶν], 4 διὰ τὴν ἐπιφανῆ [αὐ]- v τοῦ λογιστεία[ν. v] Ἀναστησ[αντ- τὸν ἀν]- δριάντ̣[α ] 8 Ν[ ] - - - - - - -
- Inscription Translation
- “[The city of the Sardians(?) honored T(itus)] Fl(avius) Damianus, the excellent curator, father of senators, because of his remarkable curatorship. [ - - - ] erected his statue.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- F55
- Trench
- F55 15.3
- Locus
- F55 15.3 Locus 22
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E781.498 - E782.298 / S190.328 - S190.128 *128.354
- Findspot
- Field 55, east side of Wadi B Temple terrace, reused in cover of drain.
- Description
Two joining fragments of gray marble, presumably of a base; broken on all sides except for the left edge.
- Dimensions
- Max. H. 0.56, W. ca. 0.45, max. Th. 0.07, H. of letters ll. 1–5 0.03; ll. 6–8 0.025.
- Comments
1–3 The honoree is the famous rich Ephesian sophist T. Flavius Damianus; see A. Stein, PIR2 F 253; E. Groag, RE VI (1909), col. 2541, no. 72; and IGSK 13 (Ephesos), no. 672, with further references.
2 and 5 On the curatores rei publicae (λογισταί), see G. Burton, “The Curator Rei Publicae: Toward a Reappraisal,” Chiron 9 (1979), pp. 465–87.
3 πατέρα συνκλη̣[τικῶν]: Philostratus, vit. soph. 2, 23, 1 (605), mentions that all the sons of Flavius Damianus were received in the Senate, being admired because of their good repute and disdain of money (εὐδοκιμώτατοι δὲ καὶ οἱ ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ φύντες, ξυγκλήτου γὰρ βουλῆς ἀξιοῦνται πάντες ἐπ᾿ εὐδοξίᾳ θαυμαζόμενοι καὶ ὑπεροψίᾳ χρημάτων); cf. G. Bowersock, Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire (1969), p. 28 n. 6, with references: “among the children of Damian and Vedia three consuls can be identified and two brides of consuls”; and H. Halfmann, “Die Senatoren aus den kleinasiatischen Provinzen,” in Atti del Colloquio Internazionale AIEGL su Epigrafia e ordine senatorio…, vol. II (1982), p. 629.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP